Having everything in FLASH lends it a certain uniform consistency. This movie looks like a compromise between justifying the expense via use of hand drawn animation, and cutting down on the expense by use of CGI for other aspects of the film. Hasbro is taking a huge chance on this which is why we should support it all we can. No companies, not even Disney have supported 2D animators in a long time. It is a hard, long effort to draw frame by frame cartoons, especially on this scale. They let computers do the work now, so we really should support this all we can if you like MLP.